Hello everyone. It’s been a while.I sort of accidentally took July off. I’ve been a little busy with this thing and that.I hope you will forgive me.I’m sure you’ve all been on the edge of your seats, so I’ll just get started…

My friend Rob and I were chatting over Instant Message the other day talking about the cartoons that we used to watch when we were kids. Most of these were the after school cartoons of the 1980’s like GI Joe and Transformers. There is a disturbing pattern that you see in most all of these cartoons.Many of them had a black character, which of course is not disturbing, but the depiction of the character usually was.It borders on hilarious how stereotypical these characters were developed.I probably could go on forever here listing all of the various and obscure examples, but I’ll keep with the more obvious ones. Read the rest of this entry »